Crickets

	British Crickets Anthropoda/Insecta/Orthoptera	thumbnails for side by side comparison this way
	full size images:	basic key to bush-crickets

	Grey bush-cricket - Platycleis albopunctata	female - above - Portland Island, Dorset female - side view - Lulworth Cove, Dorset male - Portland Island

	Long-winged cone-head - Conocephalus discolor	female - Ewell, Surrey female nymph - side view - Hogsmill river, Ewell, Surrey male - above - Lulworth Cove, Dorset

	Roesel's bush-cricket - Metrioptera roeselii	female - side view : Ewell, Surrey female - longwinged form - side view : Ashtead Common, Surrey male - side view : Box Hill, Surrey male - long-winged form - above - Headley Heath, Surrey male - long-winged form - above - Headley Heath, Surrey

	Bog bush-cricket - Metrioptera brachyptera	male - above - Thursley Common female - side view - Thursley Common female - above - Thursley Common

	Dark bush-cricket - Pholidoptera grisoaptera	male - side - Ewell, Surrey male - below - Ewell, Surrey female - side view - Box Hill, Surrey

	Speckled bush-cricket - Leptophyes punctatissima	male - Box Hill, Surrey : male nymph :


	Other British bush-crickets not illustrated here:
	Wart biter - Decticus verrucivorus
	Great green bush-cricket - Tettigonia viridissima
	Short-winged cone-head -Conocephalus dorsalis
	Oak bush-cricket - Meconema thalassinum


the recommended text for those interested in crickets is Grasshoppers and Allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland : Marshall & Haes :1990 Also available is a laminated identification chart based on the book http://www.field-studies-council.org/publications/index.aspx